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The ftalk is round, firm, of a bluifh green, 
and divided into a vaft many branches. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on it; and 
they are broad, deeply ferrated, fharp-pointed, 
and prickly. 
~The flowers ftand in thick tufts ; and they are 
fmall and white. 
The feeds are brown. 
It is a native of our fea-coafts, and flowers i in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Eryngium maritimum, Our 
people, Sea-holly, 
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Rags Bes II. 
ForREIGN GENERA. 
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Thofe of which no fpecies is naturally wild in this country, 
Gis Bacon Deeg I. 
BERG UD .B SunAo Lib BaAath, 
BPE RNIN Leo Gs 
HE, flowers are difpofed in large umbells ; ; and each is compofed of five petals, which are fiedely 
equal in fize, and bent and heart-fafhioned at the top. The cup is very fmall, and les five 
divifions. ‘The feeds are large, and edged with membranes in four ridges. 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria digynia ; but he does not allow it to be a diftiné genus. 
He makes it a kind of dafewort. 
Great Hercules Allheal. 
Panax foliis oblique cordatis. 
‘The root is long, and very thick. 
The firft leaves are very large, and of a deep 
green: they are compofed of numerous pinne ; 
which are fharp-pointed, and irregularly heart- 
fathioned at the bafe ; and are placed on divided 
ribs. 
_ The ftalk is round, upright, and fix feet high. 
Gaia N. Uses 
The leaves on this refemble the others, but 
they are fmaller. 
The flowers ftand in large umbells, and‘are ~ 
yellow. 
The feeds are large and brown. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in July. 
C, Bauhine calls it Panax paftinache folio: 
Others, Panax Heracleum majus. 
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Led: Bs AN, Oe Te Tess 
fPHE flowers are placed in large, but round umbells; and each is compofed of five petals, which 
are nearly equal in fize, and are heart-fafhioned and bent. 
are oval, ftriated, and rough. 
The cup is very {mall. The feeds 
Linnzus places this among the pentandria digynia, as the former ; but he makes it a Jere ofa an- 
other genus. 
Black Libanotis. 
Libanotis umbella hemi[pherica. 
The root is very large, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres. 
The firft leaves are broad, and fpreading: they 
are formed of a multitude of fmall parts, joined 
to a divided rib; and thefe are fharp-pointed, 
and ferrated. 
The ftalk is round, thick, divided at the top 
into feveral branches, and four feet high. 
The leaves on it refemble thofe from the root, 
but they are fmaller, 
The flowers ftand in vaft hemifpherical umbellss 
and are white, with a faint tinge of purplih. 
The feeds are large and rough. 
It is a native of Germany, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhiue calls it Tass montanus apii folio 
major, Others, Libanotis nigra Theophrafii. 
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